I opened the account manager dialog to set my SMTP server. I get a stream of assertions at nsSmtpServer.cpp, line 23 about an illegal refcount. I did mange to change to the SMTP server panel, and set it. When I click the OK button to dismiss the dialog, I got more assertions, and the window is still on the screen in a 'zombie' state.

Do you get any Exceptions as well? can you paste in your preferences that start with "mail.smtp"? thanks

I think mscott just fixed this today by initializing the refcount. The zombie state is something toolkit specific. reassigning to trudelle to fix zombie state I've seen this on mac and linux.

Mac 9/20 build: I've seen this "zombie" state on other dialogs such as the New Folder dialog. After you create a new folder and click OK, the dialog remains on screen. I assume the same bug cause as the Acct Mgr dlg.

I believe this zombie state happens when something document- or window-related is clicked. It is easy to reproduce in any window which contains a GFX combo box widget, which I think has a memory leak that causes this. This is a widget issue.

That should read: "document- or window-related is _leaked_"

If this bug report is tracking that issue you state, perhaps we should change the summary and severity accordingly. Thanks

GFX combo box is an HTML forms control, not an XPToolkit widget, reassigning.

Adjust summary, priority.

this bug is blocking me from tracking down a mac-specific bug (#12127) Please reassign to the appropriate group soon! (is dcone the right person?)

remove myself from qa assigned and chg to cpratt.

This is a blocker in all the dialogs that use such widgets.

Reassigning to Rod.

reassigning to dcone

Seems that the above has stabalized one of my test cases, and not the other. When you check in your changes Pierre can you notify sfraser to run his tests and see if those work. I still need to find out why my other test case is breaking.

This needs to be an M10 bug.

don, getting close to a fix in hand or does this need to go to m11?

We shouldn't let this slip to M11. If need be, let's get more eyeballs on it.

I think I might be getting close to fixing my test case.. the other test case I had cleared up with Pierre's change and the Leak fixes by Rod. I am curious if sfraser's problems have cleared up.. most my zombie window have.

simon, how does this look now? were enough fixes checked in before we branched for m10 to let us look ok for the milestone?

My test case has cleared up.. as of this morning..9/30/99 Simon can you test your case. I think because of the fixes we have been doing we might have nabbed this one.

No, this is still a problem. I think it is important to get these fixed in M10.

Not sure why this wasn't dupped a long time ago. Anyway, pierre's changes fix this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 14146 ***

Verified as a duplicate using the 1999-10-01-20-m10 build I can successfully close the account setup dialog and the new folder dialog